In at least one embodiment, an apparatus including a pulse buffer (PB) converter. The PB converter including a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB), at least one inductor, and at least one capacitor is provided. The PCB is positioned in the housing and includes at least one first power switch and at least one second power switch positioned thereon. The at least one inductor is positioned in the housing and off board from the PCB to interface with the at least one first power switch and the at least second power switch. The at least one capacitor is positioned in the housing and off board from the PCB to interface with the at least one first power switch and the at least one second power switch to regulate an energy output to one or more vehicle batteries during a charging operation.

An efficiency measuring apparatus that measures the efficiency of charge transfer between battery cell sections in an active EQU unit. The apparatus includes a pair of series connected battery cell sections, a first FET switch and a second FET switch. The apparatus further includes an inductor electrically coupled between the cell sections, to the drain terminal of the first FET switch and the source terminal of the second FET switch. The apparatus also includes a gate driver electrically coupled to the gate terminal of the first FET switch, and an oscillator providing a PWM signal to the gate driver, where the gate driver opens and closes the first FET switch to transfer charge from the one cell section to the other one cell section through the inductor.

A physical container (e.g., a battery) may be filled up (charged) or emptied (discharged) with energy commensurate with requirements to post a particular amount of collateral. The disclosure provides computing systems and methods for processing data using a novel combination of wavelet techniques and rolling techniques to more efficiently detect seasonality in particular products (e.g., energy products) to more accurately model and determine collateral/margin requirements. A clearinghouse computing device may be configured to generate a margin requirement for a portfolio of products and may include a processor to process instructions that cause the clearinghouse computing device to perform wavelet decomposition and rolling methods on a historical database of records.

A method of scanning a touch sensor panel while the touch sensor panel is coupled to a power adapter is disclosed. The power adapter can charge a battery of a device, but can also introduce or add noise during the process of charging the battery. To prevent adverse effects to the touch sensor panel, while the device is charging, the touch controller can time multiplex touch scan periods and inductive charging periods and can discard touch scans or touch images affected by the noise. Determining whether a touch scan is a bad touch scan can include performing a touch scan across the array of touch pixels and making a determination based on the scan profile. In some examples, the profile can be quantified using different metrics such as the shape, instantaneous slope of tail ends, a full-width half-maximum, and a monotonicity of the curve of the scan profile.

A charging method, a power adapter, a mobile terminal, and a charging system are provided. The power adapter communicates with the mobile terminal bidirectionally to obtain current state parameters of a battery of the mobile terminal, and adjust a charging parameter of the power adapter in real time based on the current state parameters of the battery.

A universal charging device and a universal charging method thereof is disclosed. An AC voltage is converted into a DC charging voltage. At least two first charging processes are sequentially performed. In each first charging process, the DC charging voltage is adjusted to be larger than the terminal voltage of a battery based on the terminal voltage and the DC charging voltage charges the battery. The DC charging voltage generates a DC charging current and a pulse current to flow through the battery until the terminal voltage is equal to the DC charging voltage. A voltage across the battery established by the pulse current satisfies a charged condition. When the terminal voltage is equal to the DC charging voltage, the DC charging current is converted into a decreasing trickle current until the value of the trickle current is decreased to a triggered current value.

Embodiments that provide advanced charging of energy source arrangements for energy storage applications are disclosed. The embodiments can be used within energy storage systems having a cascaded arrangement of converter modules. The embodiments can include the application of pulses to an energy source of each module of the system. The pulses can be applied for a duration sufficient to initiate an electrochemical reaction. Feedback based pulse control embodiments are also disclosed.

A battery diagnosis apparatus determines whether a battery may be reused and includes a data obtaining device configured to output a perturbation signal, a signal regulating device configured to generate a current by applying the perturbation signal to a battery and performing feedback of a current signal output from the battery, and a noise canceling device configured to cancel noises of the current signal and a voltage signal received from the battery. The data obtaining device outputs the perturbation signal while changing a frequency, obtains an impedance spectrum based on the noise-canceled current signal and voltage signal for each frequency, and determines whether to reuse the battery based on the obtained impedance spectrum.

A charging method is provided, which includes: acquiring a state parameter of a traction battery, the state parameter including a battery temperature; sending first charging mode demand information to a charging pile when the battery temperature is lower than a first preset threshold, where the first charging mode demand information is used for indicating a pulse charging mode, the pulse charging mode is a charging mode using a pulsed voltage or a pulsed current, and the pulsed voltage or the pulsed current is used for charging the traction battery. According to the technical solution of the embodiment of the application, the charging pile can output pulse current to charge the traction battery, so as to prevent the performance of the traction battery from being affected by directly charging the traction battery at a low temperature, thereby ensuring the performance of the traction battery.

An embodiment of the present application discloses a charging method, including: acquiring a state parameter of a power battery by a power conversion apparatus; setting a charging mode to a pulse charging mode by the power conversion apparatus when the battery temperature is lower than a first preset threshold; and converting charging power of a charging apparatus and then charging the power battery by the power conversion apparatus in the pulse charging mode. Through the technical solution, the power conversion apparatus acquires a battery temperature of the power battery, when the battery temperature is lower than the first preset threshold, the power conversion apparatus converts the charging power output by the charging apparatus, and outputs a pulse current to charge the tract battery, to prevent the charging apparatus directly charging the power battery in a low temperature, thereby ensuring the performance of the power battery.